Month: May 2004

In the period that my blog was down (between mid-April and mid-May) Nigel also celebrated his 23rd birthday. I got him Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I thought would dovetail nicely with his recent acquisition of a motorbike. He seems to be enjoying the book so far. I also finished reading Two Read more about 2004-05-27 13:37:16[…]

The Champions’ League Final was played and won by Porto overnight. I was too tired to wake up and watch it. It’s very rare that I’m too tired to watch a football match! Yesterday the first match in the 2004 State of Origin series was won by NSW. I only got to see a small Read more about 2004-05-27 13:17:59[…]

A couple of weeks ago I had a paper accepted to a workshop in Spain. The paper was about the application of complex systems theory to service discovery. It’s a workshop, so I’m not even sure why we submitted. I like the paper, and somehow I’m feeling as though I wasted it. Jaga’s going to Read more about 2004-05-24 22:39:03[…]

I’ve finished the service discovery prototype. I’ve got the local-area half working, the wide-area half working, and they’re nicely glued together. Now I just have to collect some data and finish writing. I’m not sure how relevant the peformance data is going to be. The main goal of my project was to define a protocol Read more about 2004-05-24 13:28:13[…]